Haro Klunkerson: Phase Two

I bought some stuff for my bike. Wanna see what it looks like?

OK, first things first—an apology. This site actually gets a half-decent amount of traffic, considering, and I’ve totally ignored it for like four months. So if you were checking back to see what was up… you were likely disappointed.

Truth be told, I kinda forgot I had this website.

What can I say? It was a busy and stressful end to 2024. BUT—as promised in this post, which I wrote in September, I wanted to unveil how my Haro Klunkerson looks with about $100 worth of stuff from Flite BMX.

(Given how bad the Canuck Buck is against the Greenback right now, I’m sure glad I bought it in September!)

So let’s check out what my bike used to look like—that is, a bone-stock Haro Klunkerson:

I mean, it’s phat. That’s why I bought it. But what really attracted me to this style of bike was the retro-BMX feel. I needed to up the ante with some slap-ons.

So I bought a pad set; grips; donuts; valve caps; chain-tensioner; and some Sticky Fingers for the brake levers. All very matchy-matchy, as that’s the look I’m going for.

The Result

OK. I don’t know about you—but I love it. A mild improvement, but so much more steez. Reminds me of a real ’80s BMX.

And I’ll fully admit I was inspired hugely by reader, Nik, and his sick Klunkerson. In fact, I worry I may have straight-up ripped him off. But we live thousands of kilometres away from each other and in different countries, so if you’re mad Nik, I’m sorry. But it is what it is. I mean it as a compliment!

The devil’s in the details:

Now—there are a couple of things I wish I’d added to the mix. For starters, I want to go all-in on the blue-on-blue-on-black motif. But it’s a little front-heavy. So I need colbalt blue pedals and a blue front sprocket. That’ll even it out nicely. (Maybe something in the 36T range—a little lower than stock.)

I’ve been thinking of something crazy like a front-rack… but I’m not sure, as that kind of takes from the BMX style and moves into the Cruiser style.

For now, it’s good enough. Because the Haro Klunkerson is such a well-spec’d, well thought-out Klunker, you really don’t need to do anything at all.

I mounted it high on the wall in my garage, so even during winter the it doesn’t get ridden much—it still makes me happy to come home to. I actually think this is the best perspective of all.

It’s my favourite piece of art in the whole house.